Welcome to the UCSF NORC

The University of California San Francisco's Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (NORC) integrates multiple research programs in areas of nutrition, obesity and metabolism. For more than 15 years, UCSF has actively expanded its research base in this critical subject area. Today, that research base is very robust but with a NORC-supported administrative and facilities infrastructure that coordinates and expands diverse research programs at UCSF into an interdisciplinary whole.

Collaborative, integrated programs

The UCSF NORC includes 44 senior and early-stage investigators with a collective 60 NIH grants. The center's collective goal is to define the underlying mechanisms of disease and to significantly contribute to the prevention and treatment of obesity and its complications. The UCSF NORC achieves its goal by providing collective research facilities, a lecture program that fosters interactions amongst laboratories conducting cellular, animal, translational, clinical and epidemiologic research, pilot funding for new and interdisciplinary research directions plus administrative infrastructure that promotes these integrative goals.

CENTER MEMBERS ARE REMINDED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE UCSF NORC GRANT CONTRIBUTION IN THEIR PUBLICATION (P30DK098722)

Our Mission

The mission of the UCSF Nutrition & Obesity Research Center is to provide a cohesive and efficient support of basic, translational and clinical research programs focused on nutrition, obesity or metabolism at UCSF. This is achieved by supporting research cores, a pilot and feasibility grant program and opportunities for research interactions.